Korbryn shakes his head. "Damn, dirty apes," he says quietly, and then moves to rejoin his companions and help them gather the loot.

- Rhun

For every one hundred men you send us, Ten should not even be here. Eighty are nothing but targets. Nine of them are real fighters; We are lucky to have them, they the battle make. Ah, but the one. One of them is a warrior. And he will bring the others back. - Heraclitus of Ephesus, 500 BC

For every one hundred men you send us, Ten should not even be here. Eighty are nothing but targets. Nine of them are real fighters; We are lucky to have them, they the battle make. Ah, but the one. One of them is a warrior. And he will bring the others back. - Heraclitus of Ephesus, 500 BC

Slaves

This place reeks of filth and excrement. The rear portion of the room is partially collapsed, a staircase leading down below the temple now filled with rubble. There are two human in here, they are lying on a dirty pallets. One of them dressed like a common villager, he raises his head with fear and smiles."Are you here to save us?"
The other one lies motionless, he peeks from under his hood, he wears torn and tattered ochre robes!. He says nothing.

A chest is lying in the far corner, beside one of the boulders. A heavy chain and rusted lock is around it. There is a chair beside it, a small table and mug of ale. Looks like an improvised guarding position.

The Kid narrows his eyes and nods knowingly at the man in the ochre robes. Meanwhile, he makes his way to the chest.

Thandis opens the chest easily, the lock is rusted and of no use anymore. The chain however, looks quite handy. Inside the chest several items are scattered, looks like the loot from the poor slaves.
You retrieve a hunting knife, a pouch with mushrooms, leather belt and a broken walking stick. Inside a sack you find a carved dagger, empty flask, map case, and a bedroll. Inside the map case you find 3 scrolls. Two are written in the human tongue, but they look like prays, the third scroll is in fact a map of the area.
The map shows Hommlet, Nulb, the temple ruins and a crude line that leads to the ruined tower. An arrow pointing to the west labeled "Temple of the All-Consumption". It is located beside a small village called Hagthar.
A safe route to the place is via Verbobonce and along the Ironwood. A more dangerous route passes through the Kron hills, where the gnomish settlement of Kron lies.